5 Colo. Code Regs. § 1006-1-10
Spontaneous fetal death means the expulsion or extraction of a product of human conception resulting in other than a live birth and which is not an induced termination of pregnancy.
Induced termination of pregnancy means the purposeful interruption of pregnancy with the intention other than to produce a live-born infant or to remove a dead fetus and which does not result in a live birth.
Each spontaneous fetal death of 20 completed weeks gestation or more which occurs in this State shall be reported directly to the State Registrar on the form prescribed and furnished by the State Registrar. The funeral director, or person acting as such, or a licensed hospital, if the dead fetus was delivered and final disposition occurred in a hospital, shall complete and file a Certificate of Fetal Death within five days after delivery.
Spontaneous fetal deaths of less than 20 completed weeks gestation, and each induced termination of pregnancy which occurs in this State, regardless of the length of gestation, shall be reported directly to the State Registrar on the prescribed Report of Spontaneous or Induced Abortion within five days by the person in charge of the institution in which the event occurred. If the induced termination of pregnancy was performed outside an institution, the attending physician or his designee shall prepare and file the report.
Reports of spontaneous fetal deaths of less than 20 completed weeks gestation and all reports of induced termination of pregnancy are to be used only for compilation of statistical reports and are not to be incorporated into the official records of the office of the State Registrar. The State Registrar is authorized to dispose of such reports when all statistical processing of the records has been accomplished.
All reports required under this Section 10 are considered to be vital statistics records subject to the confidentiality provisions of Section 25-2-117 C.R.S. and Section 9.2 of these rules.
5 CCR 1006-1-10